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Everyday Forms of Collaboration
Sometime ago, I thought about the everyday forms of resistance in Singapore. In recent months however, I have began to take more interest in the other side of the coin, which is more troublesome to think and write about but perhaps far more intriguing - the issue of collaboration or participation in Singapore. This has been partly inspired by Dr. Timothy Brook's recent groundbreaking work on collaboration in China during World War II. Brook's book is both haunting and compelling. He challenges us to think beyond the binary of collaboration and resistance to think about issues of appearances, costs, rivalry, and depth of state penetration that is associated with the disentangling of the binary. He hopes that one day, that could be a separation of the moralizing power of the rhetoric of collaboration from the scholars' professional investigation of the everyday forms of collaboration on the ground. In addition, he makes a more limited definition of collaboration and renders agency on both the state and the par
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